Friday, 20 November 2015

Name of the Nuclear Tests by Countries

List of Names
Nuclear Weapon Tests by Different Countries in the World-

Name of Nuclear Explosion

Country

Year

Trinity

USA

1945

Little Boy*

USA

1945

Fat Man

*

USA

1945

RDS-1

USSR

1949

Hurricane

UK

1952

Ivy Mike

USA

1952

Joe 4

USSR

1953

Castle Bravo

USA

1954

RDS-37

USSR

1955

Grapple X

UK

1957

Gerboise Bleue

France

1960

Tsar Bomba

USSR

1961

596

China

1964

Test No. 6

China

1967

Canopus

France

1968

Smiling Buddha

India

1974

Pokhran-II

India

1998

Chagai-I

Pakistan

1998

2006 North Korea
Nuclear Test

North Korea

2006

2009 North Korea
Nuclear Test

North Korea

2009

*Little
Boy and Fat Man were used as Atom Bomb on Japan. The United States dropped
atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in
August 1945, during the final stage of the Second
World War. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain
the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in
history